Masood Hussain
Associated with the Srinagar dateline since 1987, Masood Hussain has served a number of media organisations in the last more than three decades. He served Kashmir Times for around a decade and joined The Economic Times which he left in 2015 after 17 years. He is currently the Editor of Kashmir Life.
Kashmir: The Haj Economy
Almost every year, more than 30,000 Muslims go on Haj and Umrah pilgrimages from Jammu and Kashmir and spend more than Rs 750 crore....
Media In 1990
As police arrested (later released by the Court) a senior editor for being a proclaimed offender for 28 years in a case registered in...
Kaafir In Dukh Darya
In 2003, a PaK woman returned home from Jammu with a daughter born in jail as a result of rape by the warden and...
Delimitating Debate
Powerful Modi government is reportedly toying with the idea of a fresh delimitation for Kashmir assembly by undoing a legislative freeze. While there is...
Converting Kashmir
Kashmir’s transition to Islam has multiple stakeholders over a long period of time. But for converting Kashmir into an Iran-e-Sageer, little Iran, by making...
Like Father, Like Son
A decade after Amir-e-Kabir’s departure, his son came with 300 preachers. But his nearly two-decade-long sojourn in Srinagar witnessed a chain of events, still...
Deconstructing Modi 2.0
by Masood Hussain
Narendra Modi’s victory in the just-concluded Lok Sabha elections is not an ordinary one. It is a landslide victory as the rightwing...
‘Nobody Can See Where The End Is’
Rosemary Victoria Schofield is a British historian who authored Kashmir In The Crossfire in 1996. A classmate and friend of slain Pakistan premier Benazir...
Kashmir’s Amir-e-Kabir Days
The period between 1371 and 1405, during the initial days of the Shahmiri Sultanate, was extremely crucial in Kashmir’s transition to Islam. It witnessed...
Screen Millionaires
After being part of Kashmir’s routine for decades, media liberalisation took Doordarshan’s audience away to private channels. Delhi spent billions in a brand new...
Wildlife In Kashmir Politics
by Masood Hussain
Politics is hugely influenced by wildlife, especially by the lion. In every country, there is somebody who is known as the lion...
Cavemen In Folklore
The ground realities could be hugely different from what the TV cameras record. Masood Hussain details his first-hand account about a gun battle in...
Cashmere in Jallianwala Bagh
As tens of thousands of Kashmiris were pushed out of the valley by hunger, poverty, exploitation and fortune-hunting during despotic Pathan, Sikh and Dogra...
Road Block
In the superfast world, Kashmir’s arterial highway witnessed biweekly halts for the first time after 1922. Earlier, it was for the privileged passage of...
Raja and Maharaja
Gone are the days when the only Maharajas were moneyed. The affidavits filed by the politicians contesting Lok Sabha polls suggest that it is...
